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Not for Sale is a dynamic series of symposia on visual arts performance presented by PERFORMA. The panel discussions are organized by RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director, and Defne Ayas, Curatorial Associate, PERFORMA.
Established in April 2004 by renowned critic, curator and performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world. Throughout the year, PERFORMA presents lectures, panel discussions, and workshops on an ongoing basis that explore the relationship between performance and the visual arts.
PERFORMA also produces the PERFORMA Biennial of visual art performance held in New York City. PERFORMA07 will take place from November 1-20, 2007. As with PERFORMA05, New York's first performance biennial, PERFORMA07 will bring together more than twenty of the city's leading cultural institutions to present live work in all disciplines by visual artists from around the world.
RoseLee Goldberg interviews the artist Jesper Just whose performance/opera True Love Is Yet To Come was the premiere event of the Performa05 festival. Born in Denmark, 1974, Jesper Just works primarily with video and centers his themes on male gender roles and cross-generational relationships between men as well as themes of power, redemption and seduction. Just is strongly inspired by cinema; his aesthetic, dramaturgic, and narrative language reflects Hollywood productions and makes use of filmic cliches, while at the same time consciously critiquing them. See also our coverage of the Performa Opening Gala event that featured the primiere. (28 minutes)
Performa Interviews: Tor Lindstrand and Marten Spangberg listen |
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First broadcast February 18, 2008
With her staged-interior photographs using dolls and miniature furniture,
Laurie Simmons pioneered territory later explored by Gregory Crewdson (her onetime student) and Thomas Demand. Now she's making movies! Host Michael Rush talks with Simmons about Cibachrome and celluloid.
Performa Interviews: Bernar Venet and Michelle Handelman listen |
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Performance art goes from cool conceptual to bawdy bravura as Bernar Venet (60s pioneer) and Michelle Handelman (21st century costumed feminist) discuss different approaches to what can happen between an artist and an audience.
In 2005, Bernar Venet received France's highest accolade; he was named Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur. As puzzling as his pioneer conceptual performance work of the 60s and 70s, which relied heavily on scientific texts, mathematical vocabulary, and philosophy, Bernard Venet is still confounding audiences. Unlike Marina Abramovic, who will perform other artists' work as part of the Performa biennial, Venet is covering his own groundbreaking work Neutron emission from muon capture in Ca4. The new version, Astrophysics with High Energy Light, uses the formal lecture setting a context for visual art. His new book, a collection of 17 essays and interviews spanning 1975-2003 entitled Art: A Matter of Context, was published in August 2005.
Laughing Lounge, the German-cult-film/Indian-laughing-club-inspired giggle marathon at Jack the Pelican Gallery in Williamsburg may have you busting a gut. Last year, Michelle Handelman had her first one-woman show at Jack the Pelican Gallery with the passionate and repulsive This Delicate Monster, a multi-screen narrative/performance piece based on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. Her newest work, Laughing Lounge, is the official Performa selection of this noted video artist, performer and photographer; director of the Bravo Award-winning documentary Blood Sisters about SF's lesbian S&M community; and a professor at New School University's Media Studies department.
Tairone Bastien, Curatorial Associate for Performa05, hosts Carey Young and her associates, all of whom participated in a work entitled Consideration at Paula Cooper Gallery as part of the festival. In the gallery, Young and her team attempted to engage viewers into legal contracts. Alongside the artist were historian Charles Wylie, and lawyer Robert Lands. Young is a London-based artist whose work investigates the increasing incorporation of personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial. Her projects incorporate activities including intervention, language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex associations and questions for the viewer. (29 minutes)
The Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art (SI) presented a 24-Hour Incidental, a one-day program of simultaneous performance by ten artists representing several generations of performance art. Artists included were John Armleder, Peter Coffin, Jason Dodge, Annika Eriksson, Piero Golia, Carsten Höller, Karl Holmqvist, Koo Jeong-A, Christoph Keller and Yoko Ono. WPS1's Delphine Blue, on her Performa whirlwind tour, got a personal walk-through with 24--Hour Incidental curator Jordan Wolfson.
WPS1 sent Delphine Blue to capture the flavor of the gala opening at the Stephan
Weiss Studio for Performa's 2005 performance biennial in New York. The party
followed the premier performance of Jesper Just's True Love is Yet to Come. Delphine snagged the artist as well as biennial director RoseLee Goldberg, Dakota Jackson, and an international assortment of giddy fans.
WPS1 is the proud Internet Sponsor of PERFORMA05-the first biennial of new visual art performance in New York City. More than 20 venues throughout New York will present a multidisciplinary program of live performance, film screenings, lectures, and exhibitions from November 3 through 21, 2005. PERFORMA05 is organized by PERFORMA, a nonprofit arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists. For more information, please visit www.performa-arts.org.
Live from PERFORMA05, Tamy Ben-Tor performs Exotica, the Rat and the Liberal. Recorded live at Salon94 on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005.
Uncovering the racism of Western liberalism, Israeli video and performance artist Tamy Ben-Tor uses costuming and prosthetics to bring her newest creation to life. Artist Avi Pitchon calls Tamy's mix of comedy and biting political critique a "cultural ground zero," equally humorous as it is unnerving. Ben-Tor is featured in the Day Labor show, on view at P.S.1 Oct. 23, 2005 - Jan. 9, 2006.
Melik Ohanian launched his book Cosmograms (Lukas&Sternberg) during the Performa 2005 event. The idea for Cosmograms originated from Ohanian's seven-screen film projection Seven Minutes Before presented at the Sao Paolo Biennale (2004) in which one narrative was screened from seven different views. Edited by Ohanian and French writer Jean-Christophe Royoux, contributors from varied fields include Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture at the University of Princeton; David Elbaz, an astrophysicist; Richard Drayton, a lecturer in Extra-European History at the University of Cambridge; and Tacita Dean, a Berlin-based artist. Born in 1969, the multimedia artist Melik Ohanian lives and works in Paris. Using film and photography, Ohanian explores scientific, social, and cultural communities. (45 minutes)
The intrepid, charming and wise Delphine Blue dives into Leo Koenig Gallery to observe and document Gelitin's Tantamounter 24/7, a performance and exhibition featuring a homemade art-Xerox duplication machine. Gelitin, the Vienna-based collective, willfully dissents from the idea of art-as-mystery; the whole point of their slap-dash, jokey copies is their complete transparency. The group makes a point of steering clear of even a hint of artist-as-commentator, as everything about what they do seems determined not to be taken seriously. (51 minutes)
A Performa special event that reconfigures the the panel discussion as performance featuring Coco Fusco and Bernar Venet. Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, whose recent projects combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from multi-media large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. French born Bernar Venet (1941) has had a prolific career as an artist, working in photography, sculpture, painting, choreography, set design, costume design, furniture design, poetry, and as a composer. Venet's conceptual work in the 1960s led him to use sound in his work, specifically reading scientific texts and mathematical vocabulary, which he also used in his sculpture and paintings. Recorded at the Kitchen in New York.
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WPS1's Delphine Blue roams the closing party for the Performa 2005 Biennial in New York. The event featured the music of Rodney Graham and The Patsys (both featured on this week's WPS1 schedule) among others. (29 Minutes)
